Good TV
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If you're a fan of well-produced, accurate documentaries, Netflix has the best ones in my opinion. Aside from American Factory (hello, Dayton!), the Rotten and Dirty Money series are exceptional. And then there is Ugly Delicious and its ilk, all of which I could watch fo-ev-ah.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I love documentaries. Innocence Files is good, yus. (But I am a sucker for crime docs)
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What We Do In The Shadows on FX is as good as the movie, and that is saying something. And this coming Wednesday, MARK HAMILL will be on it playing a vampire! https://youtu.be/SPz8-mE0xpg
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Why did none of you tell me how good Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist was? Sure, you've talked about it here but no one said TO ME 'Hey, you should watch this.' You fuckers.
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@TNP I have been telling myself I need to watch this.
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Much as it pains me to say it, Scissor Seven is a surprisingly good cartoon on Netflix. At least in my humble opinion. It is outrageously stupid, of course. But it also manages to hit me right in the feels.
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While I'm sure it is as historically accurate as... well, as to be expected, but I'm enjoying Medici on Netflix. I had managed to miss the first two seasons (or added them to the general 'I'll get around to it' list, and I finally got around to it) but when the third hit, started them up. It isn't labeled by seasons, so it starts with 'Masters of Florence', then goes on to the better-labeled 'The Magnificent'+2. Netflix doesn't always know where to try to start playing it automatically for whatever reason, which can't help.
Am starting to believe that flashy period epics on Netflix are the home for retired CW teen-targeted show actors, between this and The Last Kingdom inheriting at least one of them. (Medici has a couple.) It's good to see them in things that seem to showcase more range than CW tended to give 'em. So when I say, 'the cast is surprisingly good', don't give in to that inclination to see those familiar faces and roll your eyes -- it also has Dennis Hoffman, Sean Bean, Ray Stephenson, and Julian Sands, after all (all of whom I
to death).My inner costume geek is pleased. It's not perfect -- nothing usually is -- but it's better than most I've seen.
I will also admit, my expectations were very low after (Showtime? Starz? I forget.) DaVinci: A Shiny Ball of WTF is This Even How Much Acid Did These People Drop, but it's definitely better than that.
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality I admit the Daniel Sharman is how I heard about it. I like him (saw him in Teen Wolf before CW). I want to get into it.
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@Macha I've been impressed. It's definitely worth watching. Again, I'm kinda biased because I love this sort of period drama, on the scale from serious to Reign/DaVinci, so.
In a number of cases, since they're showcasing generational shifts, they're aging up the young actors somewhat regularly as the series goes along. They're doing a good job of acting older and with more gravitas through that change steadily and well, which isn't something I always see. (Often enough, it's really just 'the same dude in a beard with a white streak, still acting 20something.)
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality Having finished it recently, I was absurdly proud of Daniel Sharman, regarding his transition from teen heartthrob type to SRS BRTSH ACT-OR. I mean, I'm not his family or anything, but as someone who appreciates the craft of acting, I was so happy to see him graduate into such a meaty role.
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Why did none of you tell me how good Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist was? Sure, you've talked about it here but no one said TO ME 'Hey, you should watch this.' You fuckers.
I take it back. I hate this show. It starts out all light and fun till it sucks you in and hooks you then it sneaks around behind you and stabs you in the feels. OVER AND OVER AND OVER. And then for good measure, it drops the knife and starts doing it again with a fucking sword that's hooked up to a taser. HATE IT.
Hope it gets renewed. Just with better choreography. Cause honestly, it was horrible.
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Why did none of you tell me how good Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist was? Sure, you've talked about it here but no one said TO ME 'Hey, you should watch this.' You fuckers.
I take it back. I hate this show. It starts out all light and fun till it sucks you in and hooks you then it sneaks around behind you and stabs you in the feels. OVER AND OVER AND OVER. And then for good measure, it drops the knife and starts doing it again with a fucking sword that's hooked up to a taser. HATE IT.
Hope it gets renewed. Just with better choreography. Cause honestly, it was horrible.
I think the choreography is kind of horrible on purpose? But yeah.
It's a bitch of a show if you get invested.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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I think the choreography is kind of horrible on purpose?
Maybe? It sort of reminder me of this except not as good or as funny.
ETA: Team Max forever.
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I think the choreography is kind of horrible on purpose?
Maybe? It sort of reminder me of this except not as good or as funny.
ETA: Team Max forever.
I'm team Max because I just like Skylar Astin. I liked him in Pitch Perfect and I really liked him on Ground Floor (a two-season sitcom that I inexplicably adore).
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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I think the choreography is kind of horrible on purpose?
Maybe? It sort of reminder me of this except not as good or as funny.
ETA: Team Max forever.
I'm team Max because I just like Skylar Astin. I liked him in Pitch Perfect and I really liked him on Ground Floor (a two-season sitcom that I inexplicably adore).
Team Max because he's adorkable.
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I think the choreography is kind of horrible on purpose?
Maybe? It sort of reminder me of this except not as good or as funny.
ETA: Team Max forever.
Yo, that was hilarious.
But for real, I don't think ZEP was horrible on purpose at all. I think they just went cheap with the music and the dancing. You can tell that they did not cast the show with that in mind. Personally, I think each character should have had their own style of dance - or at least the sense of that. Instead of it being very obvious that most of this was all choreo'd by the same person. The singing and dancing seems to be an afterthought to a show that is otherwise great or a gimmick built off Glee roots. But it doesn't need it. Most of the characters and stories are really strong all on their own.
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@Warma-Sheen said in Good TV:
Instead of it being very obvious that most of this was all choreo'd by the same person.
That's exactly what made me think of that video. It's like they took the same 10 contemporary dance moves and used them all in different sequences. Among others, there were 'I have a really bad headache so I'm going to hold my head tightly' and 'I'm really thirty but the glass of water keeps moving out of reach'.
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Mandy Moore is the choreographer for Zoe and she typically does excellent work, so the awfulness may be1 deliberate.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
